Portland, Oregon
Berry Picking Adventure + Summer Harvest
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Pick and eat berries all day
This week we eat berries and make berry confections, concoctions and other conflagrations. Everyone learns to safely identify wild edible plants and how to harvest in a sustainable way.
We Be Jamming
Tons of jam is made to take home to family and friends. Fruit is smashed, honey tasted and fruit roll ups are dried. We create a solar dehydrator and even paint art with bearies. We will also make the ancient berry recipe of pemmican and practice the Tao art of doing nothing but enjoying the summer fun! You might say, it all boils down to a "berry" good time!
Plus the Summer Harvest
As sweet as they are, there is more to the summer's harvest than just berries. Your instructors also teach you how to gather other goodies of the season. All together we create small feasts in each moment and day as revel in our adventures in berry picking!
Berry Picking Adventure
Details
7:30am - 8:30am FREE Morning Pre-Camp
8:30am - 3:30pm Camp Session
3:30pm - 6:00pm Pre-registered After Camp Get extended camp to 6pm
Location 5040 SE Milwaukie Avenue, Portland, Oregon Map It
Early Bird Discount Register before February 22, 2012 and receive 10% off the regular tuition
Register
Ages 6
August 20-24, 2012
Tuition $265
includes 10% super early discount |
Ages 7-8
August 20-24, 2012
Tuition $265
includes 10% super early discount |
Ages 9-10
August 20-24, 2012
Tuition $265
includes 10% super early discount |
Payment Plans
For families who need it, we can offer flexible payment plans. Contact Molly to learn more. A non-refundable deposit is always required to reserve your space.
Ages 6 Adventures in Beary Picking includes
• mobile camp around Portland Greenspaces and Beyond
• pick and harvest wild and farm berries all around the Willamette Valley
• listen and read from Winnie the Pooh & Tao of Pooh readings + secrets of the Taoist masters
• have a honey tasting with many wild honeys
• make jam, wild fruit juices & fruit roll ups
• learn safe and age appropriate plant identification
• go on nature hikes and explorations looking for Bear and friends (raccoons)
Ages 7-8 Adventures in Beary Picking includes
• mobile camp around Portland Greenspaces and Beyond
• pick and harvest wild and farm berries all around the Willamette Valley
• listen and read from Winnie the Pooh & Tao of Pooh readings + secrets of the Taoist masters
• have a honey tasting with many wild honeys
• make jam, wild fruit juices & fruit roll ups
• build a simple solar dehydrator
• learn safe and age appropriate plant identification
• go on nature hikes and explorations looking for Bear and friends (raccoons)
Ages 9-10 Beary Picking Adventure includes
• mobile camp around Portland Greenspaces and Beyond
• pick and harvest wild and farm berries all around the Willamette Valley
• listen and read from Winnie the Pooh & Tao of Pooh readings + secrets of the Taoist masters
• have a honey tasting with many wild honeys
• make jam, wild fruit juices & fruit roll ups
• build a simple solar dehydrator
• learn safe and age appropriate plant identification
• go on nature hikes and explorations looking for Bear and friends (raccoons)
A Good Fit?
Before you register PLEASE READ the critical information below to help you decide if your program is the right match for you or you child. TrackersNW invests in families and students dedicated to maturity and accountability as a team. The experience of your child is heightened as these filters insure a safe, supportive and competent collaboration with both our instructors and all other team members (including students).
This program is a good fit for the child and parent who...
• trust one another
• are interested in and empathetic to the natural world
• crave a different way of experiencing and seeing both natural and modern world
• want to have fun
• possess a sense of adventure
• make intelligent choices
• display competent autonomy when needed
• can make and keep clear agreements concerning safety
• can help insure the safety of their peers and collaborators
• works diligently toward adult accountability, consequences and responsibility
• will come dressed appropriately to stay warm, dry and healthy
• is okay with being muddy, cold and wet at times
• can be a real kid
• shares well with others
This program is NOT a good fit for children who...
• are not interested in nature & scout awareness
• are not empathetic for the natural world
• are being forced to come to camp
• cannot display competent autonomy when needed
• cannot make and keep clear agreements and choices concerning safety
• is kept inside all the time so may be uncomfortable
• will not dress appropriately to stay warm, dry and healthy
• is not okay with being muddy, cold and wet at times
• has trouble working with others and respecting the needs of other participants
Please note that if your child is positively working on behavior, we are willing to work with them and you with clear agreements
We help children to feel like that group of kids wandering country backyards 50 years ago: independent, tired, muddy, wet and happy from the woods and wild. We are acutely aware of full and real hazards of the out of doors after years of working in environmental education. We try to move away from the highly structured and limiting tolerances of conventional environmental education while keeping kids truly safe but not encapsulated from, or phobic of nature. We are deep patriots to the value of offering guided yet very free and transparent experiences for kids. We believe it is okay to be thirsty at times, cold at times, and wet at times. It builds empathy and care for the gifts of life. It fosters adventure and sincere accomplishment. We also believe it is critical to feel supported and cared for as they truly explore their passion and responsibility. And through a healthy life immersed in nature, they test the limits and great potential of the often untapped physical and emotional resiliency they possess.
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